Sheffield High School For Girls

SHEFFIELD

SK3386NW RUTLAND PARK 784-1/26/636 (North side) No.10 Sheffield High School for Girls

GV II

Girls' High School. Dated 1884, with mid C20 additions and alterations. By Tanner & Smith of London. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped plain tile roofs with decorative ridge tiles. Tudor Revival style with Arts-and-Crafts detailing. EXTERIOR: central block, 3 storeys plus attics; 9 window range. Plinth and moulded eaves. Front is divided into 3 recessed panels with modillion heads, and is topped by 3 close-studded gables. 3 large coped stacks to the front, plus single gable stack to right. In each bay, three 12-pane sashes with top lights on each floor. Gables have single 2-light casements. Ground floor has double chamfered segment-headed openings. In the centre bay, a half-glazed door with side and top lights, flanked to left by a 3-light wooden framed cross casement. In the side bays, 2 similar windows. Lower, set back bay to left has a stone mullioned 3-light cross casement on the lower floors, and above, a single light window. Left return has to right a coped gable with traceried head and first floor band inscribed "Sheffield High School for Girls". Canted 2-storey porch with hipped roof and 6-pane window, with battered plinth containing a single light window. To right, an adjoining hipped canopy to a stone external stair, with wooden brackets above the entrance. Stone ground floor with corner buttress and single window, close-studded upper stage with a 3-light casement. Above the porch, two 2-light stone mullioned cross casements. Lower set back right wing, 3 storeys; 2 window range. Single gable stack. On each floor, two 12-pane sashes, the upper ones with top lights. To right again, lower 3 storey block with irregular fenestration. Right return has 2 semicircular 5-light bow windows to the library on the second floor, and ranges of smaller windows below. Large mid C20 additions to right. INTERIOR not inspected. A largely intact example of a school built following the establishment of the Girls' Public Day School Trust in 1872, in a representative architectural style.

Listing NGR: SK3346886564